2009

Despite prolonged droughts over the last decade across rural South Australia the majority of farmers continue to farm. This research asks the questions, 'what helps them to 'get by'?', and 'does this mean that they are resilient?'. In this study, resilience implies a strengths-based approach to mental health and wellbeing whilst ot ....

Research in urban geography tends to focus on large cities. This dissertation recognizes that cities come in many sizes; it argues that it is important to study small towns as urban places. Further, it finds that urban processes occurring in small towns are not just useful to expand our understanding of these places, but as indicators o ....

The 'Sunraysia' region is Australia's premier producer of irrigated horticultural foodstuffs such as wine grapes, table grapes, dried fruit, vegetables and tree crops (citrus, olives, almonds and pistachios). Located on the borders of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia at the confluence of the Murray and Darling Rivers, ....

This report forms part of the Mineral Council of Australia’s Vision 2020 Project – a project with the objective of addressing capacity constraints to growth that have afflicted the minerals industry in the past and are likely to return and erode Australia’s market share and thus visit opportunity costs on the industry and the nation into th ....

The impact of drought on rural communities in Australia has been the subject of considerable research. Less well understood are the impacts of drought on rural small businesses and the mechanisms they use to adapt or cope through extended dry periods. In this study, strategies these businesses draw upon to manage this adversity are ....

The Cities of Albany, Bunbury, Geraldton-Greenough and Kalgoorlie-Boulder outline the case for a strategic approach to regional development within Western Australia. While making the case for decentralisation of future population growth away from the Perth Metropolitan Area, their priority is strategic investment in the infrastructure of regional ....

This thesis analyzes the impact of the political decision to broaden the scope of the Government of Canada's 3-year National Homelessness Initiative (Human Resource Development Canada, NHI, 2002) from an urban focus to one that includes smaller communities. This change provided the opportunity to study the phenomenon of homelessness and ....

Places do well when they promote transformations along the dimensions of economic geography: higher densities as cities grow; shorter distances as workers and businesses migrate closer to density; and fewer divisions as nations lower their economic borders and enter world markets to take advantage of scale and trade in specialized products. World ....

The key objective of this research was to add insight and understanding behind the current migration trends of young adults identified by quantitative research. More specific research objectives were to… Understand the series of decisions involved in the migration process and identify barriers that may prevent migration to particular location ....

The key objective of the latest phase of this research series was to add insight and understanding behind the current migration trends of young adults identified by quantitative research. More specific research objectives were to explore the experience of university alumni, determine whether intervening factors affected decisions around selecting ....